Wow — what an incredible capture. ⚡ This video shows a massive cumulonimbus anvil cloud illuminated from within by multiple lightning strikes, photographed over Bangladesh with a long exposure of 130 seconds. The result is a glowing, brain-like storm cell, each bolt etching light through the churning cloud tops. These towering thunderheads can reach up to the stratosphere, where the air is so cold that lightning briefly lights up ice crystals, creating this surreal pink and violet glow. | AstroN

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26K views · 1.3K reactions | This scene captures a rare atmospheric phenomenon: an anvil-shaped cumulonimbus cloud crowned with a thin, iridescent layer. The colors appear when sunlight scatters through microscopic ice crystals at the cloud’s upper boundary, producing a spectrum similar to a rainbow but formed by diffraction, not rain. What looks dramatic is simply the physics of light interacting with a rapidly rising storm column at sunset. | AstroNature | Facebook

Anvil top of cumulonimbus cloud lit up with lightning over Diamondhead, MS. Video by Michelle R. Wescovich via the WLOX Weather App 3.15.25 | Meteorologist Eric Jeansonne

11K views · 281 reactions | A great example of “anvil crawlers” or “spider lightning” in Arizona on Monday: | AccuWeather | Facebook

7.4K views · 332 reactions | Impressive anvil crawlers (lightning crawling across the bottom of the anvil cloud of a storm) over Murrells Inlet. Cool video Sierra Bond. | Ed Piotrowski WPDE | Facebook